Cross country: Chestatee excels at Cherokee Chase Challenge

CHATSWORTH -- The Chestatee cross country teams prevailed at the Cherokee Chase Challenge Mountain Trail run at Fort Mountain State Park on Thursday in Chatsworth.

In the boy’s varsity race, Chestatee had two runners medal in the 5K race. Jose Reyes Lavallee placed second overall with a time of 20:45 and Jason Dang earned the third place medal finishing at 21:22.

The varsity girls swept the top three medals with Tori Mullinax, Sarah Beth English, and Shelby Bennett winning the honors respectively.

In the Open Run Edgar Guerrero took second place and Christian Zapatero placed third overall.

Next week, Chestatee will host the ninth Annual War Eagle Invitational on Thursday.